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Time Out
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Reframing Strangeness: Ha Bik Chuen's Motherboards and Collagraphs
To celebrate the 100th birth anniversary of Hong Kong artist Ha Bik Chuen, Para Site is hosting an exhibition on his printmaking practices. 'Motherboard' is what Ha calls his collagraph plates – a textured surface with materials attached that is inked and used to transfer designs onto paper or other mediums. Throughout his life, Ha created over 100 motherboards to produce more than 3,000 collagraph prints mostly during the 70s and 80s. His motherboards were kept from public view, until now. See Ha's creatures combined with ancient Chinese oracle bone script, modern Chinese characters, and the Roman alphabet on motherboards, displayed alongside their 'offspring' collagraphs and drawings.
South China Morning Post
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
He called them motherboards. Artist Ha Bik-chuen's printing plates on show in Hong Kong
Who was Ha Bik-chuen, who died in Hong Kong in 2009? He was many things: autodidact, maverick artist, entrepreneur and hoarder. Much of what has been written about him, and many of the shows of his work, in the years since his death have focused on the materials found in his overflowing studio in To Kwa Wan in Kowloon, which during his time was an industrial area of Hong Kong. Photographs, clippings and pamphlets he felt were indicative of social changes in his time had accumulated there, as well as scrapbooks containing detailed records of exhibitions and art happenings he attended. The trove of objects he retained with such compulsive dedication is so large, and holds such promise of further illuminating Hong Kong's history, that Michelle Wong Wun-ting has spent the past 11 years going through it. An undated portrait of self-taught Hong Kong artist Ha Bik-chuen. Photo: Asia Art Archive
